HEH: Clinton Finally Finds a Way to Keep Weiner Under Control.

A FALSE CAMPUS RAPE CASE WITH A TWIST: Bizarre Lesbian Assault Case Revived in Georgia.

A woman arrested based on fabricated claims that she sexually assaulted a female classmate may have a case against college police officers, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled.

The arrest stems from a report that Haley Maxwell made to the Department of Public Safety at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., in April 2009. Maxwell claimed that her classmate Amanda Hartley had beaten and sexually assaulted her in Maxwell’s dorm room two weeks earlier.

Maxwell also claimed that she had gone to Hartley’s apartment in Knoxville, Tenn., just the night before and that Hartley beat her again.

Hartley said campus police had her arrested in Tennessee on charges of battery, sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery.

She was extradited to Georgia where she allegedly faced more than three weeks of incarceration.
In her lawsuit against Agnes Scott College, three of its campus police officers and the head of the public-safety department, Hartley said a reasonable investigation by the District Attorney’s Office showed that Maxwell fabricated the whole ordeal.

Evidence allegedly showed that Hartley was not in Georgia at the time of the assault, and the charges against her were dismissed in December 2009.

The defendants claimed immunity under the Georgia Tort Claims Act, but the trial court refused to dismiss the case.

Good. False accusations should have consequences.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON NEWS DUMP: IRS failed to tell federal court of lost Lois Lerner emails.

FAST FOOD’S NEW TREND: “Stealth Health.” Why the stealth? “When you tell people something’s healthy, they think it doesn’t taste good.”

CHANGE: Planes Are Finally Making Logical Descents Onto American Runways.

OVERREACH: CPAs: IRS’s ‘Voluntary’ Regulation of Tax Preparers Lacks Statutory Authorization From Congress, Contravenes D.C. Circuit Decision, and Violates Administrative Procedure Act. Laws are for the little people.

WHAT ABOUT FOR PERSONAL USE: For Sale: Weaponized Drones For Corporate Use. I need to brush up on my skeet shooting, I guess. What’s good for drones? #8 or #4?

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VIDEO: Win for FIRE, lesson for colleges: Violate the 1st Amendment, get sued, and lose.

SO AT LEAST AMERICA IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK ABOUT SOMETHING: Butter Makes Comeback as Margarine Loses Favor. “Changing views of nutrition are turning butter into one of the great comeback stories in U.S. food history. Americans this year are expected to eat an average of 5.6 pounds of butter, according to U.S. government data—nearly 22.5 sticks for every man, woman and child. That translates to 892,000 total tons of butter consumed nationwide, an amount not seen since World War II.”

TECHNOLOGY AND THE EMERGING post-privacy era.

CREATIVITY: Why Creative Genius So Often Correlates With Mental Illness.

JIM TREACHER: Is Anybody Really Surprised That Whoopi Goldberg Is A Racist?

DO TELL: Panel: Campus Rape “Epidemic” May Be Overblown.

FEDERAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM pushing mercury-laden fish for school cafeterias.

LIKE I KEEP SAYING, IF THE LOIS LERNER EMAILS THAT SURVIVED ARE THIS BAD, imagine how bad the ones that were “lost” must be. And for whom.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Grow Your Career with Booze, Vacations and Fine Restaurants.

IT’S A DAY ENDING IN “Y:” TNR is lying again: “80 Percent of Conservatives Think the Poor ‘Have It Easy.'”

BLOOMBERG’S BIG-SODA BAN dies in court.

GALLUP: Plurality: Public Wants Less Immigration. “A new survey from Gallup finds 41 percent want immigration to the United States to decrease. The Gallup poll released Friday found a 6-percentage-point spike in the number of people who want immigration to fall since last year. Gallup asked people about immigration, not illegal immigration. Thirty-three percent of people think immigration levels are fine at the present level, while 22 percent say those levels should be increased.” Real employment prospects are falling, despite the official numbers, which always leads to more resistance to increased immigration. This is why I’m unpersuaded by the claim that Republicans need to get behind open immigration.

UNLV STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Hillary Should Return Her Outrageous Speaking Fee.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 414.

ON DISPLAY IN COLORADO: America’s Unique Advantage in the Shale Boom.

The battle over hydraulic fracturing in Colorado is a demonstration of a unique advantage that the U.S. has in exploiting its shale resources. A number of the state’s cities have enacted moratoriums on fracking, citing environmental concerns over the controversial drilling process. But for many property owners, whose land rights also include ownership of underground hydrocarbons, these bans are an unwelcome barrier between them and a potentially life-changing payday. . . .

Greens will contend that property rights mean little if and when activities on your land affect your neighbor’s, and to an extent they’re right—localities need to ensure that wells are sited smartly, cement casings are installed correctly, and wastewater is disposed of responsibly.

But the fact that Americans are afforded mineral rights is a key factor in what has been, so far, an inimitable formula for shale success. Many in the U.S. take it for granted that they have ownership of more than just the surface of their property, but in other countries, these mineral rights default to governments. That’s made it difficult for drilling companies to make headway, because landowners don’t have the same incentive to sign off on disruptive drilling. In the U.S., individuals are compensated by these companies for the risks they assume. Compare that with the UK, where a lack of mineral rights has led to local protests so vociferous that they’ve managed to block drilling altogether.

If you’re a Green — or Vladimir Putin, or the Saudis — those protests are to be encouraged.

I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL HAPPY-HAPPY-JOY-JOY: The Dark Side of Meditation.